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My Take on Dale Earnhardt Jr's Incredible Race at Florence | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Sunday morning, everybody. Kenny Schrader at 69 years old,
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  69, he won it. Duck River last night down here
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  in Tennessee somewhere. Congratulations to Kenny
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  Schrader. Put it on the high side.
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  He was riding high, not afraid to die.
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  Can he do it? Jack Hewitt?
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  Damn, Wallace. What's in that coffee this
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  morning? Just normal, normal coffee,
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  everybody. I'm jacked up on life.
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  All right, Congratulations, Kenny Schrader, win #14 on the
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  year. At 69 years old, Schrader's
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  tired of me talking about age, so we'll talk about that on Herm
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  and Schrader, he would say, you keep talking about age.
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  And the other thing that I piss him off about is you keep
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  telling everybody you do everything yourself.
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  I'm like, oh, these things bother you, do they, Schrader?
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  I'll do them more than. All right.
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  Congratulations, Kenny, on the big win.
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  Riding high down there, Duck River down there in Tennessee.
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  All right, Dale Earnhardt Junior, 50 cars, 5050 Junior
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  cannot get qualified. They give him a provisional and
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  here he comes. So listen, I have no idea what
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  happened in qualifying. All I can say is we see it day
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  in and day out. Happens in dirt racing all the
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  time. They do it in the World of
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  Outlaw light models. They do it in Lucas Oil Light
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  models in a good racer can't get qualified.
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  He has a provisional and he wins the race.
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  Sometimes it's hard to get qualified.
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  You see it happen in all sports all the time.
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  All right, let's go from there. I have addressed Dale Junior
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  getting the provisional starting 40th.
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  Yeah, that's right. A short track race.
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  I'm going to repeat myself. Dale Junior starting 40th.
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  Are you kidding me? 40th in Florence, SC at Florence
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  Speedway. If you don't think Dale Junior
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  is popular, think again. I watched every lap of that race
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  last night. Yes, even while it was
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  buffering. Hey listen everybody, you're
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  paying 150 bucks a year for 1000 races.
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  Every once in a while they going buffer.
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  And let me tell you why that Flow Racing was buffering last
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  night. Because record.
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  Record ratings. I mean, everybody was logged on,
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  going to watch Dale Junior and Buddy, he did not disappoint.
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  Dale Junior puts on a show, starts 40th and methodically
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  starts working his way to the front.
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  OK, hold that for a minute. We're going to get back to the
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  race. I want to talk about the Dale
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  Junior effect. Little Birdie tells me they have
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  sold $1,000,000 it it's souvenirs and I believe it and
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  here's why. I think just about 90% of the
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  crowd there that the camera on flow was, you know, from the
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  back, you know, up at the grandstands, behind the
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  grandstands. Looking forward, I think 90% of
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  the people were wearing black, red, red #8 jackets.
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  It was cold down there. Everybody was freezing.
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  I think the whole world right now has got red #8 jackets.
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  And by the way, that 8 is such a good style, boy, good job.
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  And just watching Dale Junior get out of the car and singing
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  that Budweiser, the B, the letter B, that style on the back
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  of his fire suit, man, I had to wipe my eyes.
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  I thought it was a time warp. I'm like, is it 19, 1990
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  something all over again? Because he had that same walk,
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  he had that same talk. He just kind of got the glasses.
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  He had the glasses on. That was a little something
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  different. But the souvenirs that were
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  sold, I don't know the deal Dale Junior made with Budweiser.
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  But if he said, hey, you don't got to give us any money,
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  Budweiser, just let us keep a larger portion of the souvenir
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  sales than normal. If he said let us keep, you
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  know, a larger portion, holy moly, they are stacking the
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  money up at Junior Motorsports on Monday because the souvenir
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  sales were through the roof. And that, my friends, that's why
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  all the dirt racers, that's why. Bobby Pierce and Nick Kaufman,
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  all the big boys. Ricky Thornton.
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  That's why souvenir sales is how you make money in short track
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  racing. See, even though the grandstands
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  were packed, I mean packed, 3500, three, 1500 people.
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  Yes, I owned a racetrack. Kenny Schrader, Tony Stewart,
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  myself, Bob Sergeant, we own Macon Speedway in Macon, IL.
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  I mean, you couldn't squeeze one more person in that racetrack
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  and we were lucky to put 3000 people in there.
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  So I know we all get excited, but I'm here to de bullshit it
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  before we go. Oh man, that place was packed,
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  sold out. Well, it was sold out at maybe.
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  OK, I'll I'll act stupid. 5000 people, 5000, but there wasn't
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  5000 people there. OK, let's say there was, let's
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  say there was. I'll go to 5000, but I'm
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  thinking 3500 to 4000 people in the grandstands.
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  But here's where they made the money.
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  That flow, that flow broadcast, even though it was buffered, I
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  watched it all. I had no problem.
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  I saw y'all on there whining and crying.
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  Oh, it's buffering, it's buffering.
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  You guys sounded like little babies all night long.
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  You just kept going. This is buffering.
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  I'm like welcome to dirt racing. Our shit buffers all the time,
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  but you get still get to see the race.
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  That's that's called short track racing.
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  Just happy there's a camera there.
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  Everybody. It's $150.00 a year.
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  It's $150.00 a year. You spend that at the grocery
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  store buying milk and eggs. All right, I think I'd be
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  bullshitted that told you where they made the money, told you
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  all that Dale Junior, congratulations today to Chase
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  Elliott. I know I'm going to I'm going to
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  make a 180 here now. Following.
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  I'm going to make a 180. All right, congratulations to
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  Chase Elliott on NASCAR most popular driver.
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  However, you know where I'm going on this one if last night
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  don't tell you how popular Dale Earnhardt Junior is.
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  I mean, Dale Junior runs one Xfinity race a year.
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  He ran it at Bristol, ran 5th. Yep, Dale Junior ran fifth this
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  year in the Xfinity race at Bristol Hall Vass.
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  He is the most popular driver in NASCAR right now in heart and
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  don't even race. I said it respond right here.
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  I I said what I said and I mean it because he's got dirty MO
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  media. Dale junior download runs one
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  race did that Dale Earnhardt junior is still your most
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  popular driver and he don't even race and the reason he's your
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  most popular driver is because he's all he's going to.
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  Did you just see it? He's going to be back on TV next
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  year. He's got dirty MO Media.
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  He runs one NASCAR race here. He is your most popular driver.
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  If they put Dale Junior, if they put him on the ballot, if they
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  put Dale Junior on the ballot right now, he would be the most
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  popular driver. Hey, Louise, Louie wanting a
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  little bit of the coffee with Kenny Action.
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  I know. I see you, buddy.
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  Their legend is all right. Let's talk about that race for a
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  minute. Amy Earnhardt.
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  We're going to start with Amy. Amy said her last time out on
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  the Dale Junior download, she let a little secret out.
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  She said Dale Junior's been working on his way and he looks
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  good. I think Dale Junior wants to go
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  racing. I think he wants to do a little
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  more racing than what he's given up.
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  And I think I think Amy's like Junior because, you know, till
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  Junior had those concussions and they keep an eye on Junior.
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  But I think he's getting ready to go.
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  I think he's getting frisky. He lost some weight.
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  He looks good. He's in, he's in fighter weight.
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  He's ready to go racing. He took that race car last night
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  and showed how smart he is. Started 40th and most likely
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  you're going to wreck getting to the front at those type of
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  races. And boy did they.
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  They wrecked their ass off. But he just kept, he started on
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  the outside harder to make things happen, went to the
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  bottom and started slicing and dicing.
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  And I'm going to tell you what that crowd roared when everybody
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  realized, holy crap, this is a cinder.
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  It's a Cinderella story. It's too good to be true.
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  Dale Junior gets to second with 33 laps to go. 250 lap race,
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  Florence, SC, Florence Speedway and the damn fuel pump went out.
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  The fuel pump went out. But I'm going to tell you what,
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  everybody, last night was unbelievable.
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  Dale Earnhardt, Junior, signs of the past.
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  I called Junior and he answered the phone.
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  I said junior. I said, I just want to say this,
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  there's no that place going to be standing room only.
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  I said everybody's going to be watching because everybody wants
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  to feel good, buddy. I said, just remember, no matter
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  what happens, everybody's going to be there because they want to
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  feel good. They want they want those old
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  days back. And he said, Herman, thanks for
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  talking like that. That makes me feel good.
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  That's what Junior said to me. He's very nice to me.
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  So I'm going to end like that. That's what last night was all
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  about. It was a feel good story.
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  And if anybody is out there to demolish a feel good story,
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  shame on you. That was a hell of a story last
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  night. Hell of a run.
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  All right, everybody, happy Sunday.
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  I came outside because they say this is the last warm day of the
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  year. They say the rest of the week
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  here in Saint Louis only going to be high of 35.
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  So I said I'm going outside. All right, the Dome.
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  I'm going to run downtown Saint Louis inside the Dome.
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  We're going to be racing December 4th, 5th and 6th.
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  My race car is ready to go. She's up there to shop.
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  We race ready. All right, till the next coffee
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  with Kenny.